What is a Phase One Environmental Survey?
Basically, environmental consultants prepare a Pocatello Phase One Environmental survey to report potential contaminants on real estate holdings to comply with U.S. environmental regulations under EPA Title 10 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations).
A Phase One Environmental Survey is part of the process of conducting a site review (survey) on air, water, or soil to determine if contaminants exist before a site is developed.
However, a Phase One Survey may also be required if the site is altered or if additions to the site require existing vacant land to be developed.
Why is a Phase One Environmental Survey Pocatello and Report Important?
Very often when real estate holdings are to be developed, land upon which residences are to be built may have been owned by commercial or industrial businesses.
Whenever there is new development or alterations to existing real property, the EPA requires a Phase One Survey to be submitted to the Office of Audit and Evaluation. It is also reviewed by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. EPA.
A Phase One Survey is important especially for buyers of residences in areas like Pocatello, Idaho because very often, even with a lack of pollutants from large industrial facilities, Pocatello is home to hospitals, hotels, restaurants, and other businesses with potential to emit.
Since Pocatello and the Idaho Falls region have natural landscapes in proximity to a mountainous area, runoff from contaminants in mountain lakes and streams are also possible sources of water and soil pollution. This occurs when rain and snow events send pollutants as leachate into local groundwater plumes.
What Does a Phase One Survey Benefit?
A Phase One survey benefits the entire environment Pocatello residents rely on for good health.
When a Pocatello Phase One Environmental survey is required for proposed new residences, Rocky Mountain Environmental Associates Inc professionals are trained and licensed to conduct any testing required and to submit for their real estate and land development clients and state and federal regulatory agencies a Phase One Environmental Survey Pocatello audit and report.
With the submission of a Pocatello Phase One Environmental survey, this ensures potential real estate buyers that the land is free of contamination. It also provides reassurance to the Pocatello government there will be no potential liability to the municipality resulting from contamination.
This also ensures that the environment Pocatello maintains is in compliance with state and federal regulatory statutes and citations.
Choose a Team of Environmental Experts
In the Pocatello/Idaho Fall region, Rocky Mountain Environmental Associates Inc. has designed an expert team of professionals to assist with Phase One Environmental Surveys. The team includes a geologist, hydrologist, and hydrogeologist. For more information, visit Rocky Mountain Environmental Associates Inc, at: https://www.rockymountainenvironmental.com/.